08 Jul 2020

NLA at 15, from the team: Niki Kernohan, Director

To celebrate NLA's 15th anniversary, members of our team are sharing some of their favourite memories from the past 15 years. NLA Director Niki Kernohan kicks off the series, taking us back to the ver...

03 Jul 2020

NLA Expert Panel on Wellbeing

The inaugural meeting of the newly formed NLA Expert Panel on Wellbeing took place this week. The panel was tasked with setting an agenda for the year ahead with the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown und...

03 Jul 2020

Planning, power and promoting the professions

Planning, power and promoting the professions – webinars this week looked at planning proposals via the Sounding Board, power as an issue in the LFA’s symposium with the RA, and innovations in digital...

03 Jul 2020

TCPA and Architects Declare hit out on PM’s ‘build, build, build’

The TCPA criticises PM Boris Johnson’s ‘build, build, build’ plans and permitted development ideas as ‘campaign rhetoric’ as Architects Declare slam the proposals for failing on climate change action...

Wellbeing

03 Jul 2020

Meet the Expert: Heath Harvey, Sports and Play lead, Brent Cross South, Argent

Heath has had a 25-year career in the professional sports sector, with senior roles at Wembley Stadium, Saracens Rugby and, most recently, elite cycling events. Heath is Chair of the NLA Expert Panel...

Retail & Hospitality

03 Jul 2020

From the archive: Retail

How things can change! Only in 2007 our studies on retail reported that the GLA was forecasting a growth in retail spend and called for more development across the capital.

03 Jul 2020

Soapbox: Broadband for all - the Digital Connectivity Social Value Calculator

Liam McAvoy, Senior Director Business Development at Hyperoptic unveils a ‘digital connectivity social value calcuator’ it has produced to help social housing providers prioritise ‘hyperfast’ broadban...

Education & Health

03 Jul 2020

Knowledge Networks project highlight: Here East

Here East, by Hawkins\Brown, is London’s campus for technology and innovation, located at the heart of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. It is home to a thriving community of start-ups, global...

02 Jul 2020

Soapbox: Boris Johnson’s New Deal - How NLA Members can access the funding

EY Senior Manager, Innovation Incentives, Thomas Nicolson reveals how NLA members can access some of the funding as laid out in prime minister Boris Johnson’s ‘build, build, build’ New Deal

Planning

02 Jul 2020

Planning Reform – time to put the plan back into planning

In a busy week for all things related to the construction industry and urban reforms, Tom Venables, Director of Town Planning at Prior + Partners, says it’s time to put the plan back into planning

01 Jul 2020

Five minutes with... David West, Studio Egret West

Davids West and Taylor catch up on the phone about the former’s Earls Court masterplan win, collaboration, the importance of public realm and DNA of places, being a ‘jazz’ practice, and doing a whoop...

30 Jun 2020

The future is flexible: how COVID-19 will change London’s commercial real estate

Ways of working have changed dramatically in the face of COVID-19; water cooler moments have morphed into zoom calls and kitchen tables have replaced desks. Much has been said of this being the ‘death...